Kim Kardashian Wants to Give up Fame in 10 Years to ‘Focus on’ Her Law Career

In a decade, we might not see Kim Kardashian West on Instagram posting about her cosmetics line, KKW Beauty, or any of her other products. Instead, we may see her take a step back from fame and spend her time being a lawyer. At least, that’s her goal. Continue reading to learn who inspired Kardashian West to put all of her energy into her law career.

Kardashian West revealed in her cover story for Vogue magazine earlier this year she had been studying to become a lawyer since the summer of 2018. She started an apprenticeship with a San Francisco law firm with the intention of taking the bar exam in 2022.

“I had to think long and hard about this,” Kardashian said in the interview. Ultimately, she decided to pursue a career in law because of “seeing a really good result” with Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who had been in prison since 1996 on a nonviolent drug charge, who she helped get released.

Kim Kardashian West’s ‘focus has shifted’

Kardashian West appeared on the cover of Vogue Arabia’s September issue and talked about how her “focus has shifted” since her days of partying with Paris Hilton and being “embarrassingly obsessed” with fame in the early and mid-2000s.

And in a Season 16 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians (Season 17 is set to premiere on Sept. 8), the mother of four demonstrated how her priorities had changed and what she wants her life to look like a decade from now.

“My dad always taught me that hard work is really important and to really commit to things,” Kardashian West during an episode of the Kardashian-Jenner family’s reality series.

Her dad, Robert Kardashian, was a successful lawyer who taught his children to read contracts before signing them. He once made Kardashian West sign a contract saying she’d pay back the money she borrowed to buy and re-sell designer handbags on eBay.

The 38-year-old continued, sharing her goal for her life in 2029: “So my goal would be in like, 10 years, to give up being Kim K and just focus on this and be an attorney and fight for so many deserving people.”

Why she decided to pursue a career in law

Kardashian West explained why on top of what we can assume to be a very busy schedule, she decided to study the law. It came when she attended a meeting at the White House in the Roosevelt room during her time spent getting Johnson out of prison.

“And I’m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people and I just sat there, like, Oh, sh*t. I need to know more,” she recalled.

“I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more,” she added.